Open Court

Grade 5

Making a New Nation

342 Fri

Fritz, Jean. Shh! we're writing the Constitution. New York :

Putnam, c1987. Describes how the Constitution came to be

written and ratified. Also includes the full text of the

document produced by the Constitutional Convention of 1787.

811 Lon

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882. The midnight ride of

Paul Revere. 1st ed. Brooklyn, New York : Handprint Books,

c2001. Presents the famous narrative poem recreating Paul

Revere's midnight ride in 1775 to warn the people of the

Boston countryside that the British were coming,

complemented by maps, documents, and illustrations.

973.3 Ste

Stein, R. Conrad. The Declaration of Independence. Chicago :

Childrens Press, c1995. Discusses the people responsible

for the Declaration of Independence and what went into the

writing of the document.

B Fra

Giblin, James. The amazing life of Benjamin Franklin. New York

: Scholastic Press, c2000. A biography of the

eighteenth-century printer, inventor, and statesman who

played an influential role in the early history of the

United States.

B Han

Fritz, Jean. Will you sign here, John Hancock? New York :

Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, c1976. A biography of the first

signer of the Declaration of Independence outlining all that

he did for himself as well as what he did for Massachusetts

and his new nation.

B Pit

Rockwell, Anne F. They called her Molly Pitcher. 1st ed. New

York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2002.

F For

Forbes, Esther. Johnny Tremain. New York, N.Y. : Laurel-leaf

Books, [1971?], c1943.

F Law

Lawson, Robert. Mr. Revere and I.

PB f

Keehn, Sally M. Moon of two dark horses. New York : Bantam

Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers, 1997. At the

beginning of the Revolutionary War, hoping to keep bloodshed

away from their valley, a twelve-year-old Delaware Indian

boy and his white friend search sacred land for the bones of

a legendary beast.

PB fs

Davis, Burke. Black heroes of the American Revolution.

VC

Six Revolutionary war figures.